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In 1921, the White House Correspondents’ Association started the annual Correspondents’ Dinner. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, also known as the Nerd Prom, has become an annual event attended by the press, celebrities, politicians and, usually, the President of the United States. The purpose of

During morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis made a statement which has stirred up some controversy. He said that it is better to be atheist than to be a bad Christian. This has stirred up some angry feelings from many politicians and businesspeople,

In the span of 96 hours, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos became the ultimate embodiment of Icarus, flying too close to the sun — virtually skimming it, within this metaphor — before disintegrating before our very eyes. Within that four day timespan, Yiannopoulos had a chummy appearance on Bill

President Donald Trump’s cabinet so far has been fraught with issues. He has had problems getting Betsy DeVos confirmed as Secretary of education, and he has named several unusual people to positions such as Secretary of State, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Attorney

As of this point, President Donald J. Trump’s first 100 days appear to be one blunder after another, and his cabinet appointments only highlight this. Certainly there are some appointments who seem to make sense. However, almost every cabinet pick is surrounded in some kind

An Open Letter to the College Community from the Board of Trustees Recent hateful, threatening writings on campus have tested the community. There is nothing the board can say about those events that has not already been said better by the students, faculty and staff

This story was penned by The Revolutionary Student Committee, a group at Beloit College. Last week, the infamous far-right Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at the University of California, Berkeley. Well known for his public verbal attacks against trans people, Black Lives Matter and

On Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, the senior advisor to the President, released the latest in a string of “alternative facts” on MSNBC’s “Hardball.” In the full statement she said, “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the

President Trump’s executive order to ban immigration from the countries of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen for the next 90 to 120 days has been decried throughout the country, and the world, as a deeply flawed, unconstitutional and un-American policy. With scores

Oxford Dictionaries proclaimed that the word of year for 2016 was “post-truth.” The severe degradation of our political discourse during the election year in the form of a concerted fake news campaign and vitriolic rhetoric from both sides makes the meaning of this term self-evident